Synchronizing WAN Target Cluster

Starting with Hazelcast 3.7 you can initiate a synchronization operation on an IMap for a specific target cluster. Synchronization operation sends all the data of an IMap to a target cluster to align the state of target IMap with source IMap. Synchronization is useful if two remote clusters lost their synchronization due to WAN queue overflow or in restart scenarios.

Synchronization can be initiated through Management Center and Hazelcast’s REST API.

Below is the URL for the REST call;

http://member_ip:port/hazelcast/rest/mancenter/wan/sync/map

You need to add parameters to the request in the following order separated by "&";

Name of the WAN replication configuration
Target group name
Map name to be synchronized

Assume that you have configured an IMap with a WAN replication configuration as follows:

<hazelcast>
    ...
    <wan-replication name="my-wan-cluster">
        <wan-publisher group-name="istanbul">
            <class-name>com.hazelcast.enterprise.wan.replication.WanBatchReplication</class-name>
        </wan-publisher>
    <wan-replication>
    <map name="my-map">
        <wan-replication-ref name="my-wan-cluster">
            <merge-policy>com.hazelcast.map.merge.PassThroughMergePolicy</merge-policy>
        </wan-replication-ref>
    </map>
    ...
</hazelcast>

Then, an example CURL command to initiate the synchronization for "my-map" would be as follows:

curl -H "Content-type: text/plain" -X POST -d "my-wan-cluster&istanbul&my-map" --URL http://127.0.0.1:5701/hazelcast/rest/mancenter/wan/sync/map

Synchronizing All Maps

You can also use the following URL in your REST call if you want to synchronize all the maps in source and target cluster:

http://member_ip:port/hazelcast/rest/mancenter/wan/sync/allmaps

Synchronization for a target cluster operates only with the data residing in the memory. Therefore, evicted entries are not synchronized, not even if MapLoader is configured.

Synchronizing WAN Target Cluster

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